[OOC] Black Moon, White Night: An Urban Fantasy Visual Novel Inspired RP Reboot with a twist

[VitaVitaAR]

I may post the IC tomorrow at this rate, as I want to get this going. However, it'll be left open for people to sign up.

[tanderbolt]

I apologize for the delay, but I finally made my character. I hope he's okay.

Tetsuo

Name: Tetsuo Soeno

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Appearance: Tetsuo is a big man, owing to both the muscles built from his training, and the fat he gained from his large appetite. He keeps his hair short to avoid getting in the way, and his most common facial expression is a smile. His usual casual outfit is a long-sleeved jacket and jeans, but he wears his armor underneath if he suspects that there might be trouble. He makes sure to keep all of his clothes well pressed and washed because he believes that not doing so would be showing laziness.

Personality: Tetsuo is full of enthusiasm and always ready to make friends. He loves hard work and trains seriously, but also makes sure to help those weaker than him. To him, fighting and getting strong is about improving oneself, and it should never be about showing dominance. When it comes to serious disputes, he tries to talk things out first and build trust between people, only using violence as a last resort. The death of his brother has been stressful for him, but he still believes that the best way to solve it is by reaching out to others and working as a team, instead of acting like a lone wolf who trusts no one.

Abilities: Because of his virtually nonexistent spellcasting, Tetsuo fights with his hand to hand skills and academical devices. He tries to avoid making pure weapons, and tries to give his devices functions that would be useful in peacetime.

Skills: Expert hand-to-hand combatant, using a style mostly based on boxing and wrestling, but also featuring elements of judo and jujutsu. Mechanically minded and good at repairing nonmagical objects along with his alchemical skill. Also has some knowledge of physiology that he picked up over the years.

Equipment: As an alchemist he has a number of magical items, but only a few are useful for combat

Gauntlets of the sky: His primary offensive weapon, they greatly enhance his strength and the force of his blows. They also can magically adhere to surfaces, giving him an incredibly strong grip.

Armor of Ablation: For protection he wears a piece of armor with a hexagonal pattern. It’s designed to absorb blows by sacrificing pieces of itself. As a result it provides good protection for short periods of time, but gets worn down with repeated blows, leaving him unprepared for long fights.

Boots of the earth: These boots have two modes when engaged. They can either anchor him in place, or give him a quick burst of speed that propels him a few meters in straight line. A burst of speed requires energy, he can store enough for three bursts at a time and it takes several seconds to recharge.

Brief Backstory: Tetsuo’s family line has a lot of mages in it, but none of them were known for much except stubbornness. Their mana is weak and they harbor a lot of resentment towards the rest of magical society, who tend to look down on them for their low status. Tetsuo avoided practicing spells and focused on training his body and his skill at crafting magical objects, because he didn’t want to train his hardest only to see someone from a better family line surpass him due to genetic superiority. He never bothered to get a stable job, instead supporting himself by selling magic objects and doing other odd jobs. His RV is the closest thing to home he has. Tetsuo made friends with other magicians but stayed out the competition and politics, unlike his brother Kotetsu who was always looking to get as involved as he could. It was his Kotetsu’s dream to participate in the White Night and finally bring respect to their family. Tetsuo helped by making gear for him and training with him, but he still thought it was a waste of time. One day, Tetsuo came to visit him in Rokuro, hoping to help finish his final preparations before the White Night and deliver the last pieces of a weapon they were working on together. When he arrived, Tetsuo found that someone had murdered his brother, and stolen the parts of the weapon. He’s determined to find the culprit, but he knows that he’ll have to investigate the White Night if he wants answers.

Plot Role: Everyone’s Friend

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted!

[Zealous Blade]

Checking in. I'm still around.

[Krinos Solstice]

Sorry, last few days have been hectic for me (Thank you very much life!), but yes, I'm still here and waiting.

[VitaVitaAR]

The RP has started!

People absolutely can still sign up and I very much hope they do.

[Green Rhapsody]

Prodigy

Cornelia Marie Falkenrath

Age: 11
Gender: Female
Personality: Despite her overall cute looks, Cornelia is a distant and aloof girl. She rarely speaks unless spoken to and even then her words tend to be very terse and cold. She doesn't trust others, doesn't even want to trust them. People terrify her in ways most couldn't imagine, not that you'd ever be able to tell. If someone ever did give her a reason to trust them, she would show a much kinder and softer side to her. After all, underneath that tough exterior, is just a lonely girl who wishes she could have friends and a normal childhood.
Abilities:

• Magical Affinity: Before the decline of her family's magic, they had a strong affinity for the sky. Cornelia would inherit this affinity, giving her strong wind and lightning based magic. She can also tap into other concepts of sky such as freedom and disconnect.
  
  
  
  • Wind Spells:
    
    
    • Wind Burst: Focusing mana into her palm, she sends a blast of wind at the target/targets to blast them back.
    • Gale Cutter: Three blasts of air, focused into a sharp edge, are whipped out at the target in quick succession.
    • Air Step: A spell that lets her use the air itself as if they were stones to leap upon. She cannot stay in one place and must only use it for movement.
    • Eye of the Hurricane: A powerful force of wind spins around her creating a temporary barrier. It only holds up for a minute, cannot be used consequetively, and doesn't block certain things such as lasers.
  • Lightning Spells:
    
    
    • Spark Bind: It creates a small electric field around the indicated area. A magic circle will appear in the place that the field will go up. If the target isn't fast enough, they will be trapped in the barrier, unable to escape without electricuting themselves.
    • Thunder Bird: Four bird shaped constructs made of pure lighting form above her head. She can send them all at once or one at a time to hone in on the target. They explode into a electical charge when coming into contact with something.
  • Conceptual Spells:
    
    
    • Release: A spell that can free the user from most binds, be they magical or mundane.
    • Liberator: This spell temporarily liberates a target or the user from a single thing that may be holding them back. It can be a mental block or something physically wrong. Whatever it is, the target will end being able to tap into a higher potential than before.
    • Contract Sever: A spell that gets stronger depending on how long it is prepared. Its mostly impractical for combat, only being able to sever very weak contracts, but given time and preperation (usually ammounting to several day), she can break most of the powerful, binding contracts in this world.
• Survival Mind: As a result of a hijacked ritual that her family had tried to perform on her to make her stronger, whenever Cornelia feels her life is in danger, she goes into a completely different state of mind. Her movements become autonomous, she's no longer able to react to things like a normal person, instead her sole drive is to survive. In this state, she will quickly analyze the most practical and quickest way to survive. This isn't to say that she'll be able to dodge or counter everything thrown at her. She is still an eleven year old girl with limited physical capability, she can still be blind sided or overwhelmed even in this survival mode.

Skills: She is very aware of her own thoughts and is capable of focusing and/or clearing her mind.
Equipment: N/A
Brief Backstory: For generations, the Falkenrath family has been on a great decline. Once a powerful magus family, they could only produce mages with the minimalist of access to magic. All hope was thought to be lost for the dying family when a child was born the year before the previous White Night. This child had great store of mana and potential for magic they haven't seen in a more than one hundred years. Hoping to regain their glory with the next White Night, they quickly put the girl through harsh and dangerous training. Taken from parents she never got to know, she spent a very lonely and cold existence, constantly in fear of her next 'trial'. It was this fear that made for a very big, yet profitable, mistake. On the day they would perform a ritual to make her stronger, Cornelia was feeling especially high strung and fearful. So when they brought her out, her fear took over and seized the ritual from them, changing it into something else completely. Several of her relatives were critically injured in the aftermath, resulting in the family taking action in training the girl calm her own mind so another incident like this didn't happen again. Though, they were pleasantly surprised by the results of the failed ritual. It wasn't quite what they wanted, but some considered it a much better alternative.
Now, at the age of eleven, she has been brought to Rokuro to perform the White Night ritual. Accompanying her is an Aunt and Uncle who are here to moniter her progress and make sure she achieves her goal no matter the cost.
Plot Role: Prodigy

Inexperienced

Kanon Wakahisa

• Age: 17 (small for her age)
• Gender: Female
• Personality: An upbeat and friendly girl who almost always has a pleasant smile on her face. She enjoys the company of others and is always seeking out new people to befriend, or, in her unique case, ways to make new friends. Having a strong affinity with animals, she has many pets residing in her home. She loves each of them dearly and if you mess with them, she will show a surprisingly scary side to her.
• Abilities:
  
  • Magical Affinity: Animals or rather beasts.
  • Six Talismans of the Beast: A set of ofuda Kanon created herself to channel the abilities of various beast spirits. Only one can be used on a person at a time.
    
    • Wolf: An ofuda that increases the senses of whoever it placed upon. Specifically, sight, smell, and hearing get significatly increased.
    • Elephant: The sheer weight, strength, and density of an object or person gets greatly increased. A person would be capable of busting through walls effortlessly with this magic. The downside is that it comes at the expense of the person's natural speed and reflexes.
    • Monkey: An ofuda that increases the acrobatic abilities of anyone who uses it. It is most effective when combined with some form of martial arts.
    • Hawk: It grants temporary flight by forming etheral wings on the back of the user. It also makes the user much faster as long as they're in flight.
    • Swordfish: The swordfish ofuda is an odd one that not only gives the user not only the ability to breath under water and very fast swimming ability, but also forms an etheral sword in the shape of swordfish's bill.
    • Horse: As one would imagine, this ofuda increases the speed and stamina of the user. It also gives them more power in their legs, making for very powerful kicks.
  • Creation of Shikigami: Because of her affinity with beasts, she has an easier time of creating shikigami than most. Usually its paper dolls that take the form of animals, but she has a shikigami that she was able to give permanent form to. Her name is Shiroi Nunoe and she is a dog spirit that was able to manifest in a human-like body through Kanon's abilities. Despite her unorthodox creation, she is still considered an inugami and thus has the ability to use black magic. Specifically, her magic is to manipulate the five chinese elements. Because of her direct link to Kanon, she doesn't use her magic too often as it drains from her master.
• Skills: She knows some basic martial arts but nothing too fancy. She also quite good at cooking, cleaning, and caring for her various pets.
• Equipment: Paper Dolls
• Brief Backstory: Kanon was the only daughter of a Daoshi who came from a long line of onmyouji. Her mother had died during child labor, leaving her only with her father to raise her. He was a kind man, who treated his daughter well and taught her everything he knew. His constitution had greatly weakened after the death of his wife and though he tried to fight it, he grew increasingly more ill as time passed. It was when Kanon reached the age of thirteen that her father finally passed away in his sleep. Though this event greatly saddened the young teenager, she didn't let it depress her and instead poured herself in her studies. During this time, she began to unconsciously surround herself in animals. They provided great companionship for a lonely girl. This made an idea form in her head. What if she could make her own family through the creation of shikigami? And thus she began looking into creating a shikigami different from the ones she usually created from paper dolls. After two full years, her efforts came to fruition and she was able to give form to "sister" Shiroi.
  Plot Role: Inexperienced

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted, just like last time.

[VitaVitaAR]

List should be up to date right now.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Krinos Solstice
@Zealous Blade
@Jay Kalton
@tanderbolt

I know @Dblade26 and @Green Rhapsody know the RP's started, but I figured I'd make sure you knew as well. ^^;

[Raineh Daze]

Is... anyone else going to post? XD

[VitaVitaAR]

I'm wondering that myself.

[Zealous Blade]

Posting later today.

[Krinos Solstice]

Yeah, I'll get to my post, last week was appointments week for me.

[VitaVitaAR]

Glad to see activity pick back up, I was getting a little worried. ^^;

[Raineh Daze]

@tanderbolt Rejoice, Soeno Tetsuo! There is free beer!

@Jay Kalton Kana, now being asked for restaurant locations. XD

[VitaVitaAR]

I'm definitely glad posting has picked up. ^^;

[Matsuri]

@VitaVitaAR By the way, is it possible for another magi to 'sense' another magi's mana? And if it is, if someone has a larger mana pool will other magis be able to sense them from further away in comparison to a magi with a smaller mana pool?

[VitaVitaAR]

It's not, not unless you're using specific forms of spells. Or under some other weird circumstances that aren't relevant to this RP.

[Raineh Daze]

@Krinos Solstice I'm... confused. Is Kira meant to be a villain? Particularly one of the 'irredeemable sociopath' breed? Lopping off arms (probably causing death by arterial bleeding) for being drunk is beyond the pale for even extreme misandry... and most magic associations dislike getting that sort of attention.

Unless she's meant to get a fatal coalition less than halfway through any plot, I guess that cutting a guy's arm off is over the top--a less problematic, but still violent, reaction would be just breaking it and not unsheathing the sword.